Cheras & TRX

The Cheras-TRX corridor is Kuala Lumpur old and new in a single frame. Cheras is one of the capital's great everyday suburbs, a sprawling, lived-in belt of residential streets, busy commercial strips and some of the city's most beloved hawker food and night markets, the kind of place locals come to eat and bargain rather than to be seen. Then, at its inner edge, the skyline erupts: Tun Razak Exchange, Malaysia's purpose-built international financial centre, packs office towers, luxury residences, a flagship mall and a 10-acre elevated park into 70 meticulously planned acres. The MRT stitches the two worlds together and to downtown. For investors, the corridor offers a barbell, affordable, higher-yielding Cheras stock at one end and TRX's capital-growth premium at the other, set against central KL's luxury oversupply, the RM1m foreign-buyer floor and ringgit FX risk.

Cheras & TRX in Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia